The book is not published yet! The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze?Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell’s journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Due out March 2020. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Apparently, some oversight is needed. See all 51 questions about The Mirror & the Light…, Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Eligible Books, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAq-XYYiwg, review of The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel on LonesomeReader, The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (March/April 2020), The Mirror and the Light - SPOILER Thread, 2020 Booker Longlist: The Mirror and The Light, [Poll Ballot] The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel - 5 stars, 32 New Historical Fiction Novels Readers Are Raving About. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making … She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a … In most cases, items shipped from Amazon.com may be returned for a full refund. ―Geraldine Brooks, Air Mail"This is rich, full-bodied fiction. Of all the women at court it seems to me she was the one who had the most venomous (and healthiest contempt) for Henry as a man; that she was the most thwarted by the paltry opportunities offered to women in 16th century England. The Flower Boat Girl. $27.99. ―Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian"Is it as good as the first two books? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2020. The mirror is the source, you are the mirror. Was it perhaps because her and Anne were so similar that they were at loggerheads? If you can't google a family tree then don't buy the kindle version, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2020. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. Written by Elizabeth Oscar The book begins with the execution of Anne Boleyn in 1536. The Mirror & the Light: A... In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power. She is an artist with words, giving the reader a clear visual picture of every one of the historical characters she introduces and there are many. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. ―The Los Angeles Times"A masterpiece...A novel of epic proportions [that is] every bit as thrilling, propulsive, darkly comic and stupendously intelligent as its predecessors...The trilogy is complete and it is magnificent." Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novels, Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.The final novel of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. ―The New York Times Book Review"The Mirror & the Light is the triumphant capstone to Mantel’s trilogy on Thomas Cromwell, the son of a blacksmith who rose to become the consigliere of Henry VIII...The world is blotted out as you are enveloped in the sweep of a story rich with conquest, conspiracy and mazy human psychology…. The tensions that will end Cromwell's life are indicated even in this first chapter. 00. Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. $23.99. 00. Louis Post-Dispatch“Brilliant…. It did arrive on the 10th - the day it was officially released. Teeming with pageantry, intrigue, sex, and salvation, The Mirror & the Light reflects the looming tensions of every era, between those who hoard power and those who crave it.” ―O Magazine"Mantel’s prose is rich and vivid…Mantel makes the past feel so immediate that it seems possible Cromwell might actually manage to save himself…Expectations are high for this novel. She makes one sympathize with those who behave villainously and she requires one to cast a stern eye on the "hero" people. But I just can't. If I could have a Hilary Mantel wish it would be that she writes a novel about Jane Rochford. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Isn't it high time Goodreads did something about it? And for goodness sake, read the speech! Mantel's canny assessment of Tudor people shines through in this terrific novel. Her research is prodigious, her skill at complex plotting breathtaking, but her greatest strength is her characters and the dialogue she imagines for them.” ―Tampa Bay Times“This huge canvas, expertly painted as always, offers many of the pleasures you’ve come to expect of Mantel and her Cromwell books...Cromwell’s execution [is] a brilliantly imagined moment.” ―The New Yorker"Another masterpiece of historical fiction...The Mirror & the Light is superb, right to the last crimson drop...A complex, insightful exploration of power, sex, loyalty, friendship, religion, class and statecraft...A stunning conclusion to one of the great trilogies of our times." is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app. Simply magnificent – in my view the strongest of a Trilogy whose first two volumes were among the most deserving winners in Booker history. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges, Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 Someone give the Booker Prize judges the rest of the year off." Lady in Ermine — The Story of a Woman Who Painted The Renaissance: A Biographical N... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. Is it a masterpiece? "The Wolf Hall trilogy is probably the greatest historical fiction accomplishment of the past decade." She is a two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novels, Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the final novel in her Cromwell sequence, titled The Mirror & the Light was published in March 2020. A French assassin eliminates Anne Boleyn. Within a very short time we are introduced to many familiar characters. It take so many pages of words to express what should be said one or less. With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. The Mirror & the Light. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.”, Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Historical Fiction Shortlist (2021), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2020). Shame on you, Henry Holt. It feels like we've been waiting for this one forever, but I think it's "only" five years or so. She is an intricate and flawless plotter...But her overriding genius is for characterization." Mantel obviously feels sorry for Kate, and the "free press" gleefully and intentionally misrepresented her comments to sell newspapers Who is guilty here? And more: though it lacks the seductiveness of Wolf Hall, it gradually becomes the highpoint of the series. Dark Tides: A Novel (2) (The Fairmile Series), Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel (Jackson Brodie, 4), The King at the Edge of the World: A Novel, Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. Anyway seeing as rating books here has nothing to do with judging writing I'm going to give the kindle version a five star rating because having a 800 page book on a tiny electronic device is witchcraft of some sort. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Add to Wish List. 'Every bit as good as they said it was' Observer 'Terrific' Margaret Atwood Great story so far, difficult to read thin, translucent pages. Synopsis. https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443413732/the-mirror-and-the-light It’s smart, it’s funny, it’s unforgettable. ― Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic"Breathtaking...The plot here is shaped as meticulously as any thriller…. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. ―Booklist (starred review). ―Independent (UK)"Mantel’s prose is steadily and quietly luminous, occasionally delivering unforgettable surprises...This is a worthy conclusion to what is undoubtedly one of the great historical fictions of the age, sustaining clarity, tension and depth with a rare consistency." JOKING!! Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. The people giving the book a low star rating simple because the family tree is eligible is annoying. The Mirror & the Light: A Novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 3), An Amazon Book with Buzz: "Punch Me Up to the Gods" by Brian Broome. Extraordinary. Judge the book, the writing. The maestro returns : Once the queen's head is severed he walks away, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2020, is the attention-catching first line of Mantel's concluding novel in her award-winning trilogy. I felt like I was wading through deep mud. With this trilogy, Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of...Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century. $22.99. The ending was admittedly magnificent though. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a … It sticks the landing. For we all know the ending and, from the very first page, we are aware of the threat of the axe, and of Henry’s capricious nature, as we open with the execution of Anne Boleyn. Absolutely brilliant! I just closed the book and it will take me a few days to recuperate from the last chapter which left me devastated. Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Halltrilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipatedThe Mirror and the Light As he watches his servants try to capture the cat with a net, Cromwell puts his money on the Damascene cat outwitting their attempts because, like her, he himself has travelled far to get where he is, and he would fight anyone who tried to remove him from his high position. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. Was it perhaps because her and Anne were so similar that they were at loggerheads? The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. This third novel deals with: Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2020. So there’s that. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). This book was worth the wait. Finally it's announced!!! I also had a problem following who was talking. With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. He could be Hamlet, or the title character of one of Freud’s case studies...The dissolution of Cromwell coincides with his unmooring in time... One moment he is sucked into his childhood; the next, he is hurled into the sphere of the angels." Welcome back. The Light Behind The Window. To be published on 5 March 2020, SO looking forward to it! There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Throughout the whole of this amazing trilogy all I have been able to think about is what an incredible man Thomas Cromwell must have been and how well Hilary Mantel has portrayed him for us. ―Alexandra Harris, The Guardian"Brilliant... From that opening sentence―‘Once the queen’s head is severed, he walks away’―axes and the shadow of death are everywhere...Mantel takes what is known of Cromwell―his meteoric rise, his autodidactic scholarship, his reformist tendencies―and weaves them into a masterful portrait of a man at mid-life, facing up to his past." Mantel is often grouped with writers of historical fiction, [but] the more apt, and useful, comparison might be with Robert Caro, the biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, the great anatomizer of political power." Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. I would have to back up and try and figure it out. Indeed, it might well be the best of the trilogy simply because there is more of it, a treasure on every page...The brisk, present-tense narration makes you feel as though you are watching these long-settled events live, via a shaky camera phone... Mantel has…elevated historical fiction as an art form... At a time when the general movement of literature has been towards the margins, she has taken us to the dark heart of history." Kindle would be easier to read. $25.00. Hilary Mantel is truly a master of narrative and language. Imagine if the third The Godfather movie had been just as magnificent as the first two: It’s like that. A sensualist, she re-creates an age rife with beauty and dread...She re-creates the wicked, bawdy humor of the age, and her action scenes rival Shakespeare. The triumphant conclusion to a modern classic, The Mirror & the Light carries the reader spellbound through the final, tragic era of Thomas Cromwell’s eventful life. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and The book just arrived and the quality of the hardback is a Grade F --- paper is so thin the print from the adjacent page shows through. ―The Economist“The Mirror & the Light bears the stamp of Mantel’s genius; it’s a richly hued mural of meticulous research, enthralling characters, and expressionistic language. Start by marking “The Mirror & the Light” as Want to Read: Error rating book. The third and final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel, Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2020. Please try again. Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks 24 % off! 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